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Bayreuth|ˈbaɪrɔɪt|
The name of a Bavarian town in which festivals of the music of Richard Wagner have been held since 1876 in a theatre specially built for the production of his operas. Also attrib. and ellipt. Hence Bayˈreuthian, pertaining to or characteristic of Bayreuth. Bayˈreuther, an inhabitant of Bayreuth.
1876All Year Round 23 Sept. 39/2 The Bayreuth Performances. There has probably never been an event in..the history of music which has caused so much excitement as the recent first performances, at Bayreuth,..of Richard Wagner's..‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’. 1876Nation 7 Sept. 148/1 Dazzling spectacles, in an opera-house.., were not strange to the eyes of the Bayreuthers. 1885G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 101 Singers of Bayreuth music-dramas. 1889Ibid. 151 As to the peculiar merits of the Bayreuth mode of performance, they are simply the direct results of scrupulous reverence for Wagner. 1896Ibid. 243 And this, if you please, is Bayreuthian fidelity to ‘The Meister’. 1896― Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) II. 67 We could build it [sc. the Stage Festival Playhouse] for ourselves better and cheaper than the Bayreuthers built it for Wagner. 1959Listener 29 Jan. 216/1 The error, common in the past, against which Bayreuth now ensures the spectator is that of believing that Wagner used Teutonic myth and medieval legend simply as a vehicle for crude theories of German nationalism. |